What is Now It Can Be Told?

Now It Can Be Told is a science fiction novel written by Kilgore Trout and read by Dwayne Hoover. The novel is written in a form that purports to be a long and detailed letter from the Creator of the Universe to the reader. The letter explains that the reader is the only organism in the universe capable of meaningful action and possessed of free will. All of the other organisms are pre-programmed robots that behave as they do because they are unable to exhibit free will. Several paragraphs of the meta-fictional novel are quoted toward the end of the narrative. Dwayne assumes the novel is actual fact and, after speed-reading through it, goes on a vicious rampage and beats up several people.